[Pidgin] #3360: Chat Room Support in Google Talk

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#3360: Chat Room Support in Google Talk
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  Reporter:  onlineapps   |       Owner:  seanegan
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:          
 Component:  Google Talk  |     Version:  2.2.0   
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  chat    
   Pending:  0            |  
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Comment (by shreevatsa):

 Summary of "more information" at the link in the previous post, and my own
 experiments:

  * The Google server ignores chat invites from non-contacts, and does not
 send chat invites to non-contacts. (This is probably the right behaviour.)

  * From a XMPP MUC (a room on conference.jabber.org, say), inviting a
 talkgadget user makes talkgadet automatically add that user to the room
 with the nick "username_gmail.com", and that user sees all names as
 "undefined", and one person joining the room is interpreted as several
 people named "undefined" joining the room, etc. If the room was created as
 allowing anyone to see bare jids, then talkgadget sees the jids and
 reports the username part of them. It is not possible to invite a gmail
 user.

  * If you try to invite someone to a "group chat" from talkgadget, it
 *refuses* to invite people with non-Google accounts, and to the Google
 accounts (irrespective of client they are using) it send an *IM* saying
 "$talkgadget_user has invited you to a group chat. Click here to join the
 conversation:
 http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/joinpmuc?r=CjlZh...etc...&si=1

 So Google's "group chat" _is_ probably some form of XMPP MUC, but it
 doesn't understand room names or nicks, uses only jids, doesn't invite
 non-Google accounts, sends invitations as IMs with links, and auto-accepts
 invitations.

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